Drugs, Sports Ethics
The Enhanced Games Might Be Dangerous, But That’s What Spectators Want
The viewership of traditional athletics has always been dwarfed by MMA, boxing, and football. The Enhanced Games, commen...
Subject: Sports Ethics
Ethics, Health Care, Public Health, Sports Ethics
This Bioethicist is (Maybe) Done With The NFL And Its Super-Spreader Event
by Keisha Ray, PhD On Sunday February 7, 2021, during the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, 25,000 people gathered at&nbs...
Ethics, Genetics, Justice, Social Justice, Sports Ethics
Caster Semenya Challenges What it Means to be a Woman in Sport and Loses
by Keisha Ray, Ph.D. Since 2009 Caster Semenya has been the face of hyperandrogenism in women’s sports and today her cas...
Editorial-AJOB, Justice, Sports Ethics
“Natural” Talents and Dedication—Meanings and Values in Sport
This post also appears as an editorial in the June 2018 issue of The American Journal of Bioethics. by Thomas H. Murray,...
Justice, Philosophy & Ethics, Sports Ethics
Performance-Enhancing Drugs, Sport, and the Ideal of Natural Athletic Performance
Abstract The use of certain performance-enhancing drugs (PED) is banned in sport. I discuss critically standard justific...
Publish date:Professional Ethics, Sports Ethics, Technology
“Natural” Talents and Dedication—Meanings and Values in Sport
Abstract “Good ethics begins with good facts” is a mantra I learned in my early years at The Hastings Center. The releva...
Publish date:Sports Ethics
Heads Up: Time to Say Goodbye to Football
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Suppose a prescribed drug caused brain damage in 99.1% of people who took it. Would you take the...
Informed Consent, Privacy, Professional Ethics, Sports Ethics
Tracking U.S. Professional Athletes: The Ethics of Biometric Technologies
Abstract Professional sport in the United States has widely adopted biometric technologies, dramatically expanding the m...
Publish date:Sports Ethics
Is it Time for The NFL to Change Its Policy on Medical Marijuana?
by Keisha Ray, Ph.D. Seantrel Henderson is a 24-year-old player on The National Football League’s (NFL) Buffalo Bills. H...
Public Health, Sports Ethics
A Sporting Chance: Had We Been Willing, We Could Have Moved or Delayed the Rio Olympics
by Adam R. Houston, JD, MA, LLM It looks like the Rio Olympics are indeed going to happen; fingers crossed that all the ...
Politics, Public Health, Sports Ethics
Response to Zika and the Olympics Letter
The following letter was received by bioethics.net in response to our link to a letter written by professionals urging t...
Politics, Public Health, Sports Ethics
Rio Olympics Later: For the Good of Both Public Health and Sport
by Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. It is imperative that an open, transparent discussion of the risks of holding the Olympics as pl...